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Milestone: Jackie Rogers reveals classy looks at Worth Ave. show

To mark her brand’s 40th, Jackie Rogers staged a fashion show in Via Amore, featuring selections for day, evening, and cocktail wear.

Posted: 7:00 a.m. Monday, April 24, 2017

Most people think Jackie Rogers is a designer. But she thinks of herself as a fabricator. Or, perhaps, a textile architect.

As Coco Chanel’s model-turned-apprentice, Rogers said, “I learned that fashion doesn’t start with design. Everything comes from fabrication.” Seeing as how she’s celebrating the 40th anniversary of her brand, her toss-the-fabric-on-the-mannequin-and-let-it-settle method has served her — and her customers, who love her clothes because they are seasonless, timeless and workable — well.

“My clothes are always simple,” she said in an interview. “I take away, rather than add. More and more women are finding they don’t want their clothes wearing them.”

To mark her brand’s 40th, Rogers recently staged a fashion show in Via Amore, featuring selections for day, evening, and cocktail.

Colors included lots of the classic blacks, whites and metals, with punches of hot pink, cobalt and yellow for zing.

Waists are defined, ruffles and bows on the necklines frame the wearer’s face and fabrics are charmeuse, crepe, silk and brocade, with painstaking attention to the details, such as double ruffles with perfectly rolled edging and pleats that are double-stitched.

Hemlines and neckline are modest — except when they’re not. Sure, there’s some trends here, particularly the off-the-shoulder necklines (now well into their second season) and the side-tie, leg-baring hem, but the major part of the collection is restrained, simple, classic and intensely feminine.

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